About confirmation bias
We automatically search and take into consideration only information that confirms our point of view.
A rooted form of confirmation bias is self-serving bias, meaning the tendency to explain ourselves the good results through our positive nature and the negative results through the hostile context. And vice versa.
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Confirmation Bias
Is our tendency to cherry-pick information that confirms our existing beliefs or ideas.
To hold an idea and convince ourselves we arrived at it rationally, we go in search of evidence to support our view. And we manage to find that evidence that confirms what we want to believe.
Confirmation Bias
Confirmation bias makes us filter information through existing beliefs:
- We unconsciously seek evidence supporting our views
- Contradictory information gets downplayed or reinterpreted
- Google searches...
How Confirmation Bias Influences Our Communication
- When we confront new information, we interpret it to support our existing beliefs. Any thought or discussion that confirms our prejudice and thought patterns seems appealing to us and is known as confirmation bias.
- When we try to argue our case (because of course, we are r...
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